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SCIENCE 



[N. S. Vol. LI. No. 1308 



Research during tlie year 1920. The mem- 

 bers of the committe for the cm-rent year 

 are: Henry Crew, chairman; W. B. Cannon, 

 E. T. Chamberlin, G. IST. Lewis, George T. 

 Moore, G. H. Parker, Robert M. Yerkes, and 

 Joel Steibbins, secretary. 



The committee will hold a meeting in 

 Washing-ton in the month of April, when the 

 distribution of the grants will be made. Ap- 

 plications for grants may be made under the 

 general rules given below, wliich were adopted 

 in 1917; but the committee especially invites 

 suggestions from scientific men who may 

 happen to know of cases where young or 

 poorly supported investigators would be 

 greatly helped by small grants. 



1. Applications for grants may be made to the 

 member of the oommittee representing the science 

 in which the work falls or to the chairman or sec- 

 retary of the committee. The committee will not 

 depend upon applications, but will make inquiry 

 as to the way in which research funds can be best 

 expended to promote the advancement of science. 

 In such inquiry the committee hopes to have the 

 cooperation of scientific men and especially of the 

 sectional committees of the association. 



2. The committee will meet at the time of the 

 annual meeting of the association or on the call 

 of the chairman. Business may be transacted and 

 grants may be made by correspondence. In such 

 cases the rules of procedure formulated by the late 

 Professor Pickering and printed in the issue of 

 Science for May 23, 1913, will be followed. 



3. Grants may be made to residents of any 

 country, but preference will be given to residents 

 of America. 



4. Grants of sums of $500 or less are favored, 

 but larger appropriations may be made. In some 

 cases appropriations may be guaranteed for sev- 

 eral years in advance. 



5. Grants, as a rule, will be made for work which 

 could not be done or woiild be very difficult to do 

 without the grant. A grant will not ordinarily be 

 made to defray living expenses. 



6. The oommittee will not undertake to super- 

 vise in any way fhe work done by those who re- 

 ceive the grants. Unless otherwise provided, any 

 apparatus or materials purchased wiU be the prop- 

 erty of the individual receiving the grant. 



7. No restriction is made as to publication, but 

 the recipient of the grant should in the publica- 



tion of his work acknowledge the aid given by the 

 fund. 



8. The recipient of the grant is expected to make 

 to the secretary of the committee a report in De- 

 cember of each year while the work is in progress 

 and a final report when the work is accomplished. 

 Each report should be accompanied by a financial 

 statement of expenditures, with vouchers for the 

 larger items when these can be supplied without 

 difficulty. 



9. The purposes for which grants are made and 

 the groimds for making them wiU be published. 



Joel Stebbins, 



Secretary 



SCIENTIFIC NOTES AND NEWS 



Richard C. Maclaurin, president of the 

 Massachusetts Institute of Technology since 

 1909, died from pneumonia in Boston on 

 January 15. Dr. Maclaurin was bom in 

 Scotland in 1870. He was educated at the 

 Universities of New Zealand and Cambridge, 

 and was appointed professor of mathematics 

 in the University of New Zealand in 1898. 

 In 1907 he was appointed professor in mathe- 

 matics and physics in Columbia University. 



Dr. Jacques Loeb, of the Rockefeller In- 

 stitute for Medical Research, was elected 

 president of the American Society of Nat- 

 uralists at the recent meeting held in 

 Princeton. 



Professor F. B. Loomis, of Amherst Col- 

 lege, has been elected president of the Paleon- 

 tological Society. 



Dr. Phoebus A. T. Levene, of the Rocke- 

 feller Institute for Medical Research, in New 

 York, was elected associate member of the 

 Societ-e Royale des Sciences Medicales et 

 NatureUes of Brussels, on December 1, 1919. 



Mr. J. H. Jeans, of Cambridge, formerly 

 professor of mathematics in Princeton Uni- 

 versity, has been nominated as secretary of 

 the Royal Society. 



Dr. Paul Sabatier (Toulouse), and Dr. 

 Pierre Paul Emile Roux (Paris), have been 

 elected honorary members of the British 

 Royal Institution. 



The Swedish Medical Association has 

 awarded its jubilee prize this year to Dr. 



